After that, Eva entered the cave. Ard immediately greeted her, but Eva shifted her gaze toward Cecilia, who was still unconscious and tied up, avoiding Ard's eyes. This made Ard, who was sitting on top of Edmund's body, a little confused. Eva read the files on the table, and the color instantly drained from her face. The document she was looking at was a detailed plan for an internal coup to overthrow Emperor Ellard III, Eva's father.
Their plan was to influence the Emperor's mind, gradually weaken him by poisoning him, instruct him to murder loyal nobles, palace staff, or congress members, and then have the Emperor hand the throne over to Edmund. But on the next page, it was written: replace Edmund, then marry Eva to control her, and frame Edmund for the Emperor's murder—all in order to make Eva the Empress of the Orthus Empire.
